Staff Inbound Product Manager-Performance Telemetry

Company Description
It all started in sunny San Diego, California in 2004 when a visionary engineer, Fred Luddy, saw the potential to transform how we work. Fast forward to today - ServiceNow stands as a global market leader, bringing innovative AI-enhanced technology to over 8,100 customers, including 85% of the Fortune 500®. Our intelligent cloud-based platform seamlessly connects people, systems, and processes to empower organizations to find smarter, faster, and better ways to work. But this is just the beginning of our journey. Join us as we pursue our purpose to make the world work better for everyone.
Job Description
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Core Platform Business Unit
Core Platform is a global organization made up of hundreds of Software Engineers, Quality Engineers, Product Managers, Designers, Strategic Operations, and Leaders. We deliver best-in-class performance, resiliency, scalability, and security for over 8,400 customers, including more than 85 percent of the Fortune 500, with a 98 percent renewal rate. As the foundation of the Now Platform, Core Platform powers Runtime and Development capabilities that digitize workflows across departments and critical systems. We help enterprises:
This specific team is within Telemetry group that belongs in the Platform Core Experiences. Responsible for collecting, processing, and displaying performance data at scale for internal and external needs.
This position reports to: Director Inbound Product Management Platform Analytics
Vision & Strategy Development

• Define and drive the strategic vision for enterprise performance telemetry across all platforms and environments (cloud, on-prem, mobile, etc.).
• Develop a comprehensive 3-year roadmap that aligns with company goals and user needs, focusing on scalability, reliability, and data visibility.
• Partner with executive leadership to prioritize strategic initiatives that support innovation, operational excellence, and customer satisfaction.
• Identify key performance indicators (KPIs) for product and platform health to inform leadership reporting and real-time monitoring solutions.

Product Planning & Execution

• Collaborate with Engineering, Design, and QE teams to define desired product outcomes, success metrics, and acceptance criteria.
• Lead release planning activities including epic and user story creation, backlog grooming, sprint planning, and stakeholder demos.
• Ensure telemetry solutions are highly performant, secure, and seamlessly integrated into existing workflows.
• Partner with DevOps and architecture teams to evolve observability standards and instrumentation practices.

Customer & Stakeholder Engagement

• Actively engage with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders (e.g., SRE, Support, Customer Success) to capture feedback and identify pain points.
• Translate user insights into actionable product requirements and enhancement opportunities.
• Lead customer discovery sessions and proof-of-concept initiatives to validate new telemetry capabilities and UX flows.
• Serve as the internal voice of the customer for all things performance telemetry-balancing internal priorities with external impact.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Act as the subject matter expert on telemetry best practices and observability tooling across the organization.
• Evangelize the use of telemetry data to drive operational decisions, improve reliability, and optimize system performance.
• Collaborate with Product Marketing and GTM teams to communicate the value and competitive differentiation of new telemetry capabilities.
• Contribute to technical documentation, release notes, and internal training to support product adoption and stakeholder alignment.

Qualifications
To be successful in this role you have:

• Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI's potential impact on the function or industry.
• 7+ years Experience leading and developing data intensive applications specifically in application performance monitoring, observability, or AI monitoring
• Strong understanding of tradeoffs in building data intensive applications including tradeoffs on collection, transport, storage, and query.
• Navigate, manage and align a matrixed organization that involves internal and external data needs
• Strong domain expertise in application performance monitoring and observability
• Working knowledge of Open Telemetry Protocols, collectors, and exporters
• Familiarity with data collection, data warehouse and data query solutions designed for large scale.

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For positions in this location, we offer a base pay of $147,300 - $257,800, plus equity (when applicable), variable/incentive compensation and benefits. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure. Please note that the base pay shown is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies, and work location. We also offer health plans, including flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, matching donations, a flexible time away plan and family leave programs. Compensation is based on the geographic location in which the role is located and is subject to change based on work location.
Additional Information
Work Personas
We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible, remote, or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work and their assigned work location. Learn more here . To determine eligibility for a work persona, ServiceNow may confirm the distance between your primary residence and the closest ServiceNow office using a third-party service.
Equal Opportunity Employer
ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements.
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